From Chico, take SH 101 about 3.5
miles north, turn west onto CR 1667 about 1 mile, turn onto CR 1661
about 1 mile, turn south onto CR 1771; drive south on CR 1771, turn
right over cattle guard and continue on unpaved road to cemetery.

The first burial at this site occurred in the early
1870s. Area settlers H. H. Bradford, B. P. Cox, J. C. Cartwright, and
J. C. Weaver, donated the property for the interment of a young girl
who had died on a wagon train. The earliest marked grave is that of
Maria B. Smith (1805-1875). During the 1890s, a sanctuary was built
north of the burial ground for a Methodist Episcopal Church. As
declining soil conditions caused families to move from the area, the
congregation became inactive. The chapel was removed by 1914, but the
Olive Branch Cemetery remains in use.